Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann

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Kuhlemannstrasse in Cologne

Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann (born November 4, 1891 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , † March 9, 1939 in Cologne ) was a German journalist , cabaret artist and writer in Cologne dialect .

After the First World War, Kuhlemann worked as an editor and music critic in Saarbrücken for a few years . After his return to Cologne he worked in the secretariat of the tobacco dealer and writer Josef Feinhals (pseudonym Collofino ) and in the tobacco museum as a cultural historian. Kuhlemann dealt intensively with the history, literature, art and music of Europe and spoke seven foreign languages.

Grave memorial stone on the Cologne south cemetery

Excited to Kölsch dialect poetry, he was the actor, director and theater director Franz Goebel, who had founded in Cologne in the "Theater of the Working People," and with whom he in the Revue r D'second halve Hahn worked. With the support of Otto Brües , he published numerous poems from Cologne . He also published some cultural-historical articles in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Kuhlemann enjoyed great popularity through his lectures and readings in Cologne.

His main work is Consolamini , a cycle of poems published in 1919 by Kairos Verlag Köln-Ehrenfeld with five drawings by Max Ernst . These were the first book illustrations by the still unknown friend. Since the book practically did not sell, the entire print run was crushed in 1920.

His cycle of poems landscapes was set to music by Erwin Schulhoff in 1919 . Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann published many of his works under the pseudonym Ithaka , composed of the first letters of his name J.Th.K. The city of Cologne commemorates him with Kuhlemannstrasse in the Altstadt-Süd district .

His grave in Cologne's Südfriedhof (hallway 71) was cleared in the early 1990s after the rest period had expired . Local historians later had a memorial stone set up at the original grave site.

Works

  • The roof is full of miracles. Edited by Joseph Klersch. Pick, Cologne 1954.
  • Consolamini. Poems. Kairos, Cöln-Ehrenfeld 1919.
  • D'r second half cock. Revue. 1928.
  • Cologne Rhine cruise. 1935.
  • From tobacco. Edited by J. Feinhals. 1936.
  • Bibliophile parable. Bibliophile Society, Cologne 1937.
  • Cologne. Advertising leaflet. 1939.
  • The action. Poem.
  • Saturn. Poem.
  • The current. Poem.
  • The accomplices : Opera in two acts (Goethe), edited by Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann, (1918–920, incomplete) (WV 47)

Web links

Commons : Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Josef Feinhals: The Stories of Collofino [di Joseph Feinhals]: A collection of strange incidents and puzzling adventures ...
  2. ↑ Dietmar Klenke, Peter Lilje, Franz Walter: Workers' singers and people's theaters in the Weimar Republic. Volume 3.
  3. ↑ Andreas Vowinckel: Surrealism and Art: Studies on the history of ideas and the change in meaning of Surrealism before the founding of the Surrealist movement and on the concept, method and iconography of Surrealism in art from 1919 to 1925. Olms, 1989 ISBN 3487077175 , p. 211.
    Max Ernst wrote to Herwarth Walden , the editor of the Sturm (December 19, 1915): I am sending you a very sublime poem by my friend Joh. Th. Kuhlemann. Werner Spies: Max Ernst, collages. 4th edition. DuMont, Cologne 2005, p. 217 / note. 131. Max Ernst spoke of a symphonic, slightly Hölderlin tone. Johannes Kuhlemann's wedding poem for Max Ernst and Luise Straus was printed in Consolamini . Spieß speaks of “Klee reminiscences” in the illustrations (Spieß, Max Ernst, Collagen , p. 33).
  4. ↑ Kuhlemannstrasse in Cologne with an explanatory street sign ( memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strassenfotos.de
  5. ↑ Günter Schwanenberg: Em Himmel es d'r Düvel loss ... Musical-literary forays into the southern cemetery. Marzellen-Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937795-11-9 ( Edition Narrengilde 7), p. 134/140.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhlemann, Johannes Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ithaca (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer in Cologne dialect
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Ehrenfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1939
Place of death Cologne